OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Vase with scholars in a garden” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:33 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Vase with scholars in a garden

Vase with scholars in a garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Garden Vase, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Design for a Garden Vase

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Daniel Marot the Elder

Vase

Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc à Marly, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Vase de marbre blanc à Marly

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc à Marly, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Vase de marbre blanc à Marly

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Greenwood Pottery Company

Vase

Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by P. Moithey, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

P. Moithey, French, active 18th century · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Marc Schoelcher

Vase

Marc Schoelcher · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783

Title Page

Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by John Bennett

Vase

John Bennett · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles, by Jean Hardy, French, 1653 – 1737

Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles

Jean Hardy, French, 1653 – 1737 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Tucker Factory

Vase

Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles, by Jean-Baptiste Poultier, French, 1653 – 1719

Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles

Jean-Baptiste Poultier, French, 1653 – 1719 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funeral Ritual in a Garden, Tomb of Nakhtmin, by Charles K. Wilkinson

Funeral Ritual in a Garden, Tomb of Nakhtmin

Charles K. Wilkinson · 1921; original ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles, by Jacques Herpin, French, active 17th century

Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles

Jacques Herpin, French, active 17th century · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc de six pieds trois pouces de haut, dans la grande allée à Versailles, by François Barrois, French, 1656 – 1726

Vase de marbre blanc de six pieds trois pouces de haut, dans la grande allée à Versailles

François Barrois, French, 1656 – 1726 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles, by Jean Degoullons, French, d. 1687

Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles

Jean Degoullons, French, d. 1687 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1821–24

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 25054 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7483504 matched · 40 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 20:33 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.